New Member SW Oregon

[Roguesam]

Folks,
I am a recently retired 69-year-old male with a long-term interest in hunting/shooting. I recently purchased the Savage Model 10 Predator Hunter Max 1 in 6.5 Creedmoor. I am looking for information for paper punching out to 1000 yards and game hunting at a maximum of 500 yards. I plan on working up to this hunting yardage deliberately. I have NO interest in wounding any game animal by overestimating my long-range capabilities. I am adding a Vortex Viper Gen 2 5-25x50 scope with EGW base and Warne Maxima 30mm rings. My reloading plans include the Hornady Lock-n-Load progressive press. Thanks in advance for your assistance in these endeavors!

 

[Barrelnut]

Congratulations on the retirement and welcome to the forum. Good rifle and cartridge choice. I'm a Savage and Creedmoor fan too.

One suggestion would be to use a standard single stage ram press instead of a progressive. Reason is most reloading for long range shooting is done by weighting each charge of powder and bullets seating depths. I think this is much easier to do with a single stage press. I use a Horny single stage and am happy with it.

A good scale is important too. Either mechanical or electric whichever you are most comfortable with. I throw slightly under weight charges with a Hornady auto charge powder dispenser. Then trickle up on a GemPro 250 electric scale.

 

[Roguesam]

I have done most reloading with a single-stage press (an old Herters) when loading for accuracy. The progressive will be used for quantity production of 5.56 and .308 ammo, primarily. Aging myself prematurely...my age is 59 yo, not 69...

 

[ragsflh]

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